How to know you're "born again"?

[praise_yeshua]

This came up in another thread and I decided to start a thread on this topic. This conversation is important. Maybe one of the most important conversation that a person will have in their entire life.

I'm not going to deal with this subject in the traditionally sense of "what must I do".

The fact is, though salvation has common aspects of certainty, it is also uniquely fulfilled in each individual. As such, "what must I do" is more than just reciting the given "narrative" found in "repeat after me"......

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "repeat after me doesn't work". I'm saying it doesn't work for everyone. It most certainly works for some. Let me explain myself.....

"Salvation" is a journey. Being "born again" is a "spot/place" in that journey. The journey for man's cooperation in salvation is complicated. There is no removing the "process" that leads to being "born again".

Many people are not ready for that point in their lives. Those people might have even expressed "saving faith" at some point in their lives. There 1 plus 2 plus 3 "math" here. There might be an "ABC's" associated with salvation but the path to become literate in ABC's doesn't always add up to identical equations.

I'm not saying there are different requirements. I am saying there are different circumstances in each individual's life.

Before I get into other details, can we agree on these basic facts?

 

[Bronson]

This came up in another thread and I decided to start a thread on this topic. This conversation is important. Maybe one of the most important conversation that a person will have in their entire life.

I'm not going to deal with this subject in the traditionally sense of "what must I do".

The fact is, though salvation has common aspects of certainty, it is also uniquely fulfilled in each individual. As such, "what must I do" is more than just reciting the given "narrative" found in "repeat after me"......

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "repeat after me doesn't work". I'm saying it doesn't work for everyone. It most certainly works for some. Let me explain myself.....

"Salvation" is a journey. Being "born again" is a "spot/place" in that journey. The journey for man's cooperation in salvation is complicated. There is no removing the "process" that leads to being "born again".

Many people are not ready for that point in their lives. Those people might have even expressed "saving faith" at some point in their lives. There 1 plus 2 plus 3 "math" here. There might be an "ABC's" associated with salvation but the path to become literate in ABC's doesn't always add up to identical equations.

I'm not saying there are different requirements. I am saying there are different circumstances in each individual's life.

Before I get into other details, can we agree on these basic facts?

Sounds right. Different circumstances could be like someone on death row getting saved and say a Preachers kid getting saved.

 

[praise_yeshua]

Sounds right. Different circumstances could be like someone on death row getting saved and say a Preachers kid getting saved.

Absolutely. Timothy is a perfect example.... The faithful should pass their faith to their children.

2Ti 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

 

[Bronson]

Some have been led to repentance by a significant emotional event called being “cut to the heart” in Acts 2:37. Others have been hit with a guilty conscience or brought to some other turning point in life.

Paul says that “godly sorrow” produces genuine repentance, which results in permanent changes that will lead a person toward salvation, in contrast to “the sorrow of the world,” which does not result in permanent change and leads to death.

“For Godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death” 2 Corinthians 7:10

 

[praise_yeshua]

Some have been led to repentance by a significant emotional event called being “cut to the heart” in Acts 2:37. Others have been hit with a guilty conscience or brought to some other turning point in life.

Paul says that “godly sorrow” produces genuine repentance, which results in permanent changes that will lead a person toward salvation, in contrast to “the sorrow of the world,” which does not result in permanent change and leads to death.

“For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death” 2 Corinthians 7:10

I generally list repentance as the last step in the "Order of Salvation" or "Ordo Salutis". While there is a sense of "change of mind" in seeking God..... Repentance is more meaningful than just "looking for God". Repentance is a point in salvation for the individual where you have learned what is required of you in order to be saved. It is more than just the face value of "repeat after me". It is where a person sincerely embraces God for who He is regardless of the future and what that decision means for the individual. It is an abandonment of our own will to embrace God's will.

Such can be very complicated. For a child, it is much less complicated than the baggage we care into adulthood. Repentance is "granted" in the sense only God personally.... can approve of such in the process of being "born again". There is an exchange that takes place that establishes a Eternal relationship in our very souls.

 

[Joe]

This came up in another thread and I decided to start a thread on this topic. This conversation is important. Maybe one of the most important conversation that a person will have in their entire life.

I'm not going to deal with this subject in the traditionally sense of "what must I do".

The fact is, though salvation has common aspects of certainty, it is also uniquely fulfilled in each individual. As such, "what must I do" is more than just reciting the given "narrative" found in "repeat after me"......

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "repeat after me doesn't work". I'm saying it doesn't work for everyone. It most certainly works for some. Let me explain myself.....

"Salvation" is a journey. Being "born again" is a "spot/place" in that journey. The journey for man's cooperation in salvation is complicated. There is no removing the "process" that leads to being "born again".

Many people are not ready for that point in their lives. Those people might have even expressed "saving faith" at some point in their lives. There 1 plus 2 plus 3 "math" here. There might be an "ABC's" associated with salvation but the path to become literate in ABC's doesn't always add up to identical equations.

I'm not saying there are different requirements. I am saying there are different circumstances in each individual's life.

Before I get into other details, can we agree on these basic facts?

You asked, How to know you're "born again"?

It is simple. Hear the Gospel and respond in repentance and belief. One is saved by believing from the heart God at His Word. When one does that, one will become a new creation-born again and must continue living a new life by faith. The person upon spiritual birth will be joined in spirit with the Holy Spirit, who "bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God".

God Bless

 

[praise_yeshua]

You asked, How to know you're "born again"?

It is simple. Hear the Gospel and respond in repentance and belief. One is saved by believing from the heart God at His Word. When one does that, one will become a new creation-born again and must continue living a new life by faith. The person upon spiritual birth will be joined in spirit with the Holy Spirit, who "bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God".

God Bless

There is complexity involved in belief. It is one thing to claim something in confession and entirely another thing to actually believe what we claim. I believe this is the very reason Paul mentioned the necessary order of belief being meaningful to confession.

 

[Joe]

There is complexity involved in belief. It is one thing to claim something in confession and entirely another thing to actually believe what we claim. I believe this is the very reason Paul mentioned the necessary order of belief being meaningful to confession.

Hi brother,

I don't disagree. The question of the thread is "How to know you're "born again"?". The very last sentence of my answer is the crucial part, "The Holy Spirit, who "bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God".

I don't hear many people in today's church world talk about the Holy Spirit. Many people get got up in religion, doctrine, and three ways to a good life kinda stuff because that is all they know or want to hear. I like to say it this way, you know when someone is living in your house and so do others. And you know when the Spirit of God is living inside with you and so do others, for they tangibly see the result in a change of life that is not religion or doctrine, but a testimony from one's mouth that God lives within me after believing in Jesus Christ. To me, this is the most crucial part of believing in Jesus Christ, is knowing God lives within...this is how anyone knows they are born again; God bears witness within each person that one is His child.

God Bless

 

[Behold]

To become born again, means you now have Jesus in you........you are become "the Temple of the Holy Spirit".

If that has not happened, you're not a Christian.....because....."those who have not the Spirit of Christ, are none of God's".

Now where this turns into a train wreck, is when someone who does not have Christ in them, believes they do, and tries to teach the Bible.

If you've ever wondered why there is "ONE Body of Christ" .. yet there are 45,000 "Christian" denominations in the world.....then you just found out why.

If you've ever wondered why God makes Christians.....and John Calvinism makes Calvinists.......then you now know why.

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How to know you are saved?

3 ways..

1.) One.. do you have a history ????? .. a day, a time.. a date in your PAST, when you understood you are a sinner, and you have to be forgiven, or you will not go to heaven.....

Do you have that TIME in your past, when that was your understanding, and you went to JESUS for Salvation?

If you dont have that,..... then "now is the day of Salvation.....now is the accepted time"... for YOU to Trust in Christ and be forgiven.

2.) You became sin sensitive........the day you are born again.....That means, that you started to SEE SIN everywhere.. whereas before you didnt really comprehend that sin was sin.........and now you DO.....>Now you sense it, see it.......and are SIN Aware... always.
That is the Holy Spirit causing that to happen to you, from inside you.

3.) After you are saved for 10ys... 20 yr, 40 yr.. you can look back on what you were like, and see what you became... as a person, as a behavior......and you'll see where and how God changed you from what you use to be......and now you are DIFFERENT in a way that you could not have caused yourself to become.